The commandcd~/.Trashchanges thedirectory (eller present working directory) to the /home/user/.Trash folder. In this case, this folder doesn’t exist and so the pwd stays as /home/user/, the folder whereallthe user’s files and settings are saved.

The commandrm -rfv *removes all files in the pwd. Den “v” part indicates that it must show verbose output indicating what is being done during this removal process. The prefixed commandsudo (substituteuserdo) has the command run asroot. Thus, had thesudocommand been functional, userwould have deleted every document he had ever saved in his home folder.